When Trump released his immigration policy position paper he mentioned two big things that have hurt American workers and depressed wages. Not properly verifying status of workers before they are hired and H1-B visas.

Canada has strict laws about hiring non-citizens and enforces them. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by Ronald Reagan, granted residency to millions of immigrants. It also contained language to enforce hiring of non-citizens. However, according to GOPUSA’s website, “The threat of a crackdown against employers who knowingly hired illegal workers never materialized because political compromises weakened the employer sanctions and because widespread fraud enabled companies to keep hiring illegal immigrants.”

Skilled and educated workers are also hurt by non-citizen workers. Hundreds of thousands of H1-B visa holders are here, willing to work for less, undercutting of wages of American workers.

I don’t agree with much of what Trump says. However, on these two specific issues he is right, but it will take more than this to create jobs for all American citizens. We need to abandon job-killing trade agreements and re-establish tariffs on certain products to take away the incentive to offshore manufacturing to low-wage countries.